Originally from Eastern Europe, Olivera moved to the US in 2000, after surviving NATO bombing of her homeland of Serbia, with her two children who were 4 and 5 years old at a time.
Being a Classical Piano Teacher for 36 years was Olivera’s greatest passion since she was 4 years old. She was a competitive gymnast also since age 4 through 11, when she began competitive swimming. She’s been hooked on fitness and stretching ever since. She’s been also teaching holistic and hot yoga for 15 years.
In these vulnerable times of mental health crisis she felt the need to share her own decades-long silent struggles with mental (un)health, facing her own suicide after 8 years of grieving for her husband and other past unprocessed traumas. She is currently writing a memoir with an important message for the world that it IS possible to avoid suicide – she’s showing us how and what helped her heal herself within only 9 months. She shares how she copes with occasional or daily challenges now. Stay tuned for her memoir which will for sure make you cry, laugh and poop your pants at the same time.
Oli(vera) became a model by a pure accident, ‘lol 😉 One day, her daughter posted on her IG a photo of Oli(vera) in the advanced yoga pose and another one with the two of them “just hangin’ out”. The Select Model Los Angeles noticed the photos and wanted to sign up Olivera right away. Modeling was never on Olivera’s list of things to do so she was still pinching herself when she signed the contract with Select only a few days after turning 51.
Olivera is passionate about holistic health, chemical-free, sustainable lifestyle and healing. She enjoys playing the piano, working out for 2-3 hours a day, doing hot yoga and could spend hours stretching, lol 😉 She loves reading books and writing of any kind. She enjoys snow-skiing, roller-skating, creative projects of any kind, such as repurposing and (re)designing her own clothes.
Her happy places are: any island of Hawaii, Palm Springs, Adriatic Coast, Italy and her own, sunny backyard.
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